Justify the title of The Stranger or The Outsider
Justify the title of The Stranger or The Outsider or Evaluate Meursault as a stranger or outsider Being a French , Albert Camus preferred to write The Outsider in F rench. The problem of translating Camus first and most famous novel begin s with the title L Estranger which could be variously rendered as The Foreigner or The S tranger or The Outsider . The se translations do have opposing nuances of meaning. The Foreigner suggests cultural difference , The S tranger suggests social isolation and The Outsider suggests the personal behavior of an idiosyncratic person who acts in such a way as to be set apart from other s . Thus, the appropriateness or the justification of the translation of the title and Meursault’s role needs to be analyzed. Our main character , Meursault, is a French man living in French Algiers. In some senses, this makes him a foreigner to the land . B ut the text establishes that in fact h is family has lived there for several gen...